The objective was that participants understand and familiarize themselves with ecosystem services as well as IWRM concepts and issues. The participants were expected to do their own valuation on Ecosystems and Environmental Services in addition to applying water management tools for ecosystem management, understand and implement the institutional arrangements and legal frameworks in their respective organisation and country. The training materials were adopted from the International Ecosystem Function and IWRM, conducted in Costa Rica.
The training was organised in partnership with Cap-Net. Thirty participants came from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Philippines and Timor Leste. Local participants were from the public sector, private companies, and NGOs.